On 7/29/2016 1:55 PM, Florian Fainelli wrote:

On 07/29/2016 01:52 PM, Rafał Miłecki wrote:

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On 29 July 2016 at 22:49, Ray Jui [off-list ref] wrote:

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On 7/29/2016 1:46 PM, Rafał Miłecki wrote:

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On 29 July 2016 at 22:44, Ray Jui [off-list ref] wrote:

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On 7/29/2016 5:58 AM, Rafał Miłecki wrote:

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From: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>

This clock is present on cheaper Northstar devices like BCM53573 or
BCM47189 using Corex-A7. This driver uses PMU (Power Management Unit)
to calculate clock rate and allows using it in a generic (clk_*) way.

I thought Northstar uses Cortex A9 instead of A7?

[    0.000000] CPU: ARMv7 Processor [410fc075] revision 5 (ARMv7),
cr=10c5387d
[    0.000000] CPU: PIPT / VIPT nonaliasing data cache, VIPT aliasing
instruction cache
[    0.000000] Machine model: Tenda AC9

Yeah ARMv7 instruction set but the core is Cortex A7. Both Cortex A7 and A9
use ARMv7 instructions.

OK, sorry for irrelevant part then :)

This is from BCM4709C0:
bcma: bus0: Core 10 found: ARM Cortex A9 core (ihost) (manuf 0x4BF, id
0x510, rev 0x07, class 0x0)

This is from BCM47189B0::
bcma: bus0: Core 3 found: ARM CA7 (manuf 0x4BF, id 0x847, rev 0x00, class 0x0)

This is indeed a Cortex A7-based chip, not clear if putting this chip in
the Northstar family is accurate here because it really seems to have a
different architecture from the NS/NSP family here...

Okay I got it. Good to know! I got confused by it being called 
"Northstar" because as far I can remember, none of the Northstar chips 
uses Cortex A7 (or maybe even that assumption is incorrect, :))

Thanks,

Ray